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1 2 CONTENTS Schizophrenia and Delusions ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Heresy, Lunacy and Rumours of Madness ............................................................................................................................. 9 Disease Creation .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 eugenics and psychiatry in Australia .................................................................................................................................. 29 Schizophrenia and Dopamine Blockers .............................................................................................................................. 40 A Psychoanalysis of Psychiatry ........................................................................................................................................ 54 Private Hospitals and Military Connections ......................................................................................................................... 67 Behaviour Control and Social Control ................................................................................................................................ 84 Legacies of a Prison Colony .......................................................................................................................................... 123 British Prejudices in its Colonies .................................................................................................................................... 140 Mental Patient Rights in Australia................................................................................................................................... 154 Eugenics and ‘Mental Hygeine’ ..................................................................................................................................... 157 Organised Selling of Madness ....................................................................................................................................... 175 Reasons for Diagnosis of Schizophrenia ........................................................................................................................... 190 Social Control and Delusions of Control ........................................................................................................................... 212 Self-Fulfilling Prophesies ............................................................................................................................................. 218 Persecution in the Guise of Psychiatry: soviet and NAZI Examples .......................................................................................... 235 3 Research on Dead Mental Patients in Australia ................................................................................................................... 244 Telepathy and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia ........................................................................................................................ 252 Nasty Labels ............................................................................................................................................................. 264 Religious Wars for converts and madness ......................................................................................................................... 271 A Cure for Schizophrenia! ............................................................................................................................................ 344 The Amine Hypothesis in a New Light ............................................................................................................................. 381 Looking for Love and Emotional Health ........................................................................................................................... 405 Freedom of Movement and Chemical Restraints ................................................................................................................. 419 Mind Over Matter or Matter Over Mind? .......................................................................................................................... 434 Disease Creation by Psychiatry – some diagrams ................................................................................................................ 452 REFERENCES:......................................................................................................................................................... 457 4 Introduction Schizophrenia is a term that was coined in 1908 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. Since then, the criteria used to diagnose schizophrenia have changed considerably. This book presents evidence that the term has little scientific justification, and should be abandoned. Though I believe that the term ‘schizophrenia’ is a label that does more harm than good, I don’t believe that “mental illness doesn’t exist”. On the contrary, I believe that some degree of mental illhealth is close to ubiquitous. Delusions are widespread and affect most people to some degree – delusions are actively propagated by the mass-media, by political and religious organizations and, for that matter, the holy books of different religions. Delusions are inflicted on children by their parents and teachers; though some of what is taught is true and correct, some is not – such incorrect information, however widely held, remains delusional. The treatment of delusions by the psychiatry profession is centred on drugs rather than counseling. It is difficult for a profession that is profoundly deluded itself to remedy delusions though talk therapies. In reality, the psychiatry profession focuses on convincing patients that they suffer from incurable mental illnesses – by this token, accepting that one has schizophrenia is regarded as “gaining insight”. It is a widely held doctrine in psychiatry that people with ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘mania’ are notorious for “lack of insight” – in other words they do not regard themselves as mentally ill until they are convinced that they are by the psychiatry profession and its agents. The coercive nature of psychiatry results in people being punished by incarceration and injections until and unless they accept that they have such incurable mental illness (and agree to take drugs ‘volunatrily’). There is no greater insult than to be told that one has a sick mind. The colloquialism of a ‘sick mind’ is synonymous with evil. It also supposes that the mainstream of thinking is 5 ‘healthy’, while those who hold contrary beliefs are deluded. Yet the mainstream remains deluded about many things. Only a fool believes everything on television. One needs to be naïve in the extreme to think that there are no vested interests involved in what is televised and promoted as true by the ‘mainstream’. Delusional thinking is but one of several characteristics of ‘schizophrenia’. The other important criterion for the diagnosis of schizophrenia is hallucinations, especially auditory hallucinations. Bleuler’s initial formulation for the label included auditory hallucinations, and this was stressed in the 1959 re-formulation of schizophrenia by the German psychiatrist Kurt Schneider in his list “first rank symptoms”. Though antipsychotic drugs (and SSRI antidepressants) can sometimes cause hallucinations, it seems likely that low doses of antipsychotic drugs can reduce auditory hallucinations, and have a place in their treatment. It is also important, though, to address the various environmental causes of hallucinations, rather than relying on such drugs in the long term. The fact that people do experience hallucinations at times does not justify the label of schizophrenia. Instead, certain people may be said to have a tendency to auditory hallucinations – this avoids the stigma of the terms “schizophrenia” and “mental illness”. The other term that is often used in reference to schizophrenia is that of “psychosis”. Though this is a pathologisation of the Greek for “process” (-osis), which in this case is taken to mean “disease process”, the word psychosis is usually interpreted as being “out of touch with reality”. But who is to be the judge of reality? And can we be sure that the psychiatry profession and medical profession (more broadly) are “in touch with reality”? 6 SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DELUSIONS Delusions are regarded as typical symptoms of the supposedly incurable mental illness termed “schizophrenia”. This is claimed, in psychiatric texts, to be a serious brain disease that affects about one percent of the world’s population: about 60 million people. Of these, 5 to 15 percent (3 to 9 million people, mostly under the age of 40) are predicted to commit suicide. This usually is said to be an unavoidable consequence of the illness, and not a consequence of diagnosis and treatment. Like other medical and scientific assumptions, such claims by the psychiatry profession must be critically examined and rejected if logically unsound. Given that iatrogenic (treatment-induced) illness exists, and the mechanisms by which medical diagnosis and treatment can cause illness and death are well established, it is surely necessary that we look carefully at all areas of contemporary psychiatric practice for flaws, and correct any situations in which illness is being created rather than cured. This is especially